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Professional societies, I beg you, please shorten the name of the Super-Long-Dude's-Name Memorial Prize in Whatever Studies. It's torture trying to include it in my tightly limited cover letter nominating a colleague for another prize with a name that's way too long. Like, if you just called it the Best Prize or something, I'd save two full lines.

#WordWeavers Oct. 15: What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn?
My WIP is based, as far as possible, on psychology and science so that's more a selection process than an invention so all I did was read about the brain and the development. I am not sure if that qualifies as backstory, though?

Hopefully this will get boosted by someone who has followers who need to see it.
Were you born overseas at a military base or to a parent who was a U.S. citizen? If so you probably do not have a normal birth certificate issued by a state. Instead you will have a Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued by the state department. The current form is FS-240 there are also older discontinued forms FS-545 and DS-1350.
If you do not have yours you can go to

#PennedPossibilities 151: What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural?
Prefrontal Cortex is mostly concerned with if it can be categorised, entered into a spreadsheet, or labelled. There are others in the Mansion who would want to voice their opinions, of course because the brain is complex and confusing, but Prefrontal Cortex has …